Rapid disappearance of regenerated fibre Bragg gratins at temperatures approaching 1500 ºC in Boron-codoped Germanosilicate optical fibre
M. L. Åslund, J. Canning, University of Sydney (Australia); H. Fu, H. Tam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China)
Rapid annealing of Regenerated fibre Bragg gratings observed at temperatures approaching 1500°C. Simple packaging within a dry silica tube is found to resolve issue of brittleness of fibres at extreme temperatures.